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Vocabulary
Chapter 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cultural diffusion | The process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors. |
| Renaissance | the recvival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries |
| Industrial Revolution | the shift from human power to machine power |
| Summit | |
| Prevailing westerlies | |
| Euro | the common currency used by member nations of the European Union |
| Compulsory | required |
| Fertile | able to produce abundantly |
| ore | |
| tertiary economic activity | |
| moor | |
| bog | an area of wet, spongy ground |
| glen | a narrow valley |
| peat | |
| cultural dicergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
| blight | a plant disease |
| fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice |
| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat |
| mixed economy |